Watercolours and gouache.
Below: Charles Pears’ remarkable painting of the sinking by Nazi bombers of the Cunard liner “Lancastria” (far right of picture) in June 1940 off St. Nazaire, which is Britain’s worst ever maritime disaster, costing 4,000 lives. Hushed up by Churchill at the time, and now largely forgotten.
Off Norway, around 7pm, 26th December 1943, the German battleship Scharnhorst's bow explodes under the Allied fleet’s eight star shells. After the renowned war artist Charles Pears’ oil painting of 1944
